Search Results: Titles starting with N from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0805036504 . Signed edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Brewer & Warren. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but there is some light generalized toning to the endpapers and edges of the text block. The dust jacket has edge wear and nicking along with rubbing and tears to the spine ends and flaps. There is one chip missing from the middle spine of the dust jacket. Trade copies of this book with the dust jacket are actually quite scarce in comparison to the limnited edition. This copy has been signed, with an inscription on the front endpaper. "A transcendentalist and mystic in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson, whose works he read, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness. After Monhegan, he lived for extended periods of time… Read More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A Five-In-One volume which includes the highlight work of Dashiell Hammett. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book covers have some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, spots of rubbing, wrinkling and toning. "Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Five years later, four out of five of his novels made The Top 100… Read More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Morris's books include The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal, published in 1967. The book sold well enough for Morris to move to Malta in 1968 to write a sequel and other books. In 1973 he returned to Oxford to work for the ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 1973 to 1981, Morris was a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. In 1979 he undertook a television series for Thames TV, The Human Race, followed in 1982 by Man Watching in Japan, The Animals Road Show in 1986 and then several other series. Morris wrote and presented the BBC documentary The Human Animal and its accompanying book in 1994. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview… Read More

Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0848704010 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, spots of rubbing and a couple of small chips along with some ground-in dirt, especially to the rear cover. "Joseph William Namath (born May 31, 1943) , nicknamed "Broadway Joe", is a former American football quarterback and actor. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant from 1962 to 1964, and professional football in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. Namath was an AFL icon and played for that league's New York… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2011. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, there is some light rubbing and nicking to the spine ends. "Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973) is an American author of young adult fiction. She has published fourteen novels to date including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, The Name of the Star, Truly Devious, and Suite Scarlett. Among Johnson's works are notable collaborative efforts with her contemporaries such as Let It Snow, a holiday romance novel of interweaving stories co-written with John Green and Lauren Myracle, and a series of novellas found in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling anthologies The Bane… Read More

New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0688114601 . SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription, on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1916. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The top spine end has some beginning nicking, and the lettering on the spine has rubbed a bitl. The text is illustrated througout with four color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. The inner hinges of the book are a bit loose. "Spearman was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads. The books were illustrated by leading artists, such as N. C. Wyeth for Whispering Smith. Although he wrote prolifically about railroads, his actual career was that of a bank president in McCook, Nebraska, and did not himself work for a railroad. Spearman was also a devout Roman Catholic convert and held political views best described as… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0374218986 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Dorfman's work often deals with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, the trials of exile. In an interview in BOMB Magazine, Dorfman said, "I'm constantly trying to figure out how you can be true to an experience which in fact very few people in the world would understand, such as having most of your friends disappear or be tortured, and at the same time finding a way of telling that story so other people in other places can read their own lives into that." His most famous play, Death and the Maiden, describes the encounter of a former torture victim with the man she believed torture her: " (from Wikipedia) .

New York, NY: Standard Magazine, Inc.. Very Good. 1955. Magazine. Cover Art; This is a trade sized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The cover has fading and wear. There are also several small spots of foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are: Too Late for Eternity by Bryce Walton, Dark Destiny by WIlliam Morrison, Double Date by Winston Marks, Nanny by Philip K. Dick, Wayfarer by Roger Dee, Miss Stardust by Richard Matheson, and The Box by Arthur Porges. .

Chicago, IL: National Billiard Association of America. Good. 1934. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format pamphlet with self covers and stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The pamphlet cover has some light rippling, edge wear and small nicks. The covers have noticeable generalized toning. The text pages are generally clean and bright, and also have generalized toning. There is an ink stamped price on the front cover. " (Ruth) McGinnis stated playing pool at the aged 7 in her father's barbershop pool hall on South Main Street in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. She was a prodigious player at a young age, making a run of 47 at the age of about 10. She was the captain of the varsity basketball team that won the Pennsylvania state championship in 1928. McGinnis scored 36 points in one game, and 341 across the 15 games in the series. In 1943, she completed training as a physical education teacher at Teachers' College.… Read More

Nantucket, MA: EEL Grass Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This edition is limited to 250 copies signed by the authors. This is copy No. 71. This copy has been additionally signed by author Lucius Shepard on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. Laid in is a pocket map tri-fold, a postcard and a napkin from the Atlantic Cafe. "Shepard embraced many different themes throughout his career. In his early work, he wrote extensively about Central America. This included clearly science-fictional stories about near future high-tech jungle war (such as "R&R" and "Salvador") , as well as stories that seemed more in line with magic realism. Many of these, such as "Black Coral" (which concerns an American… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Westwinds Books. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 950 unnumbered copies. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears, overall toning and spots of foxing. "After their wedding San Francisco on May 19, 1880, Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson set off on an adventurous honeymoon to the Napa Valley. Stopping briefly for a night in Vallejo, the Stevenson’s boarded a train to carry them (and their dog Chuchu) to Calistoga at the north end of the Napa Valley. They spent the remainder of May in Calistoga, at one of the Hot Springs Hotel cottages. Then, once joined by Fanny’s son Lloyd Osbourne, the family made their way up the grade of Mount St. Helena to the Toll House, from which they found their way to the abandoned Silverado Mine bunkhouse where they would “squat” until the end of July.… Read More

New York: Dell / Laurel Leaf Books. Very Good+. 1966. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. This is a First Laurel leaf printing. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The white book covers have generalized light toning. The text pages are clean and bright, but have noticeable toning. "The term narcotic originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone). " (from Wikipedia) .

D. C. Miller. Very Good+. 1827. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Softcover. This is a small (slightly smaller than trade sized) pamphlet / booklet printed by the committee looking into the death / murder of William Morgan. The booklet is eight and 3/8" by 5" , pagination: 37 & 35p. (Signatures: [A]6, B6, C-F4, G8. - according to Worldcat) With a side stitched spine. The self covers have been encased in plain paper (The booklet is in generally clean condition, though there are occasional spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked name on the top of the title page. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. There is an illustration (looks to be steel engraved) by "Jackson" showing Captain Morgan in the "Magazine" Sept, 1826 (I'm assuming that the Magazine is where prisoners were kept). "William Morgan (born 1774 – disappeared c. 1826) was a resident of Batavia, New York, whose disappearance and… Read More

San Francisco, CA: NASA. Very Good+. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Journal. B&W Illustrations; This is an small format journal of the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. The journal is made up of two sheets, folded vertically in half. The journal is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. Articles include: Galileo Probe reveals Major surprises, Three NASA Field Centers form new Commercial technology Alliance, McDonald Named Ames Center Director, and more. "Ames Research Center (ARC) , also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory. That agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA Ames is named in honor of Joseph Sweetman Ames, a physicist and one of the founding members of… Read More

Washington, DC: NASA. Very Good+. 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and a glued spine. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. .

Washington D. C.: NASA. Very Good+. 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a trade paperback book with thin cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The edges of the book cover have some light wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "The NAC Science Committee is a standing committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) , supporting the advisory needs of the NASA Administrator, the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) , and other NASA Mission Directorates, as required. The scope of the Committee includes all NASA Earth and space science-related programs, projects, activities and facilities." (from Wikipedia) .

Washington D. C.: NASA. Very Good. 1962. Brochure. B&W Illustrations; This is small four fold brochure with eight pages of text. The brochure is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This brochure was a giveaway / ephemeral item from NASA for visitors of the Century Exposition, at the Seattle World's Fair. The brochure has a couple of small spots of ground-in dirt and foxing throughout. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "At the fair, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and contributing aerospace industries displayed full-scale models of the Saturn V booster rocket and John Glenn's Mercury capsule. Glenn visited Seattle toward the end of the fair, and made appearances with the genuine Mercury capsule -- the Friendship Seven. This exhibit graphic shows the Space Capsule with its single astronaut." (from the Museum of History & Industry) .

Washington, DC: NASA. Very Good+. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Graphs; This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Aviation Safety Reporting System, or ASRS, is the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) voluntary confidential reporting system that allows pilots and other aircraft crew members to confidentially report near misses and close calls in the interest of improving air safety. The ASRS collects, analyzes, and responds to voluntarily submitted aviation safety incident reports in order to lessen the likelihood of aviation accidents. The confidential and independent nature of the ASRS is key to its success, since reporters do not have to worry about any possible negative consequences of coming forward with safety problems. The ASRS is run by NASA, a… Read More